As good as he has been in the last two games, the one memory that I have is that sliding tackle he made against Burnley to block a shot on goal, where he basically put his body on the line. Any other Arsenal defender would have just stood and put out a weak leg in the general direction of the shot, knowing well enough that it won’t make a difference, but not Mustafi, not in that instance. He made sure he slid full length on the pitch to get to the shot and present his whole body as a target, John Terrysque. Was awesome to see an Arsenal defender take such pride in keeping a clean sheet.

Just goes to show the superficiality of such stats though, they don’t mean much unless you actually examine which teams are faced in each sequence of results, and the circumstances under which the matches were played.

Maybe this is why wenger was trying to sell the fucker in the summer and we were all thinking what the fuck are you playing at. He probably saw in training or something that he has major issues as a player.